The Arts Voyager: Paul Ben-Itzak on Ariane Michel's "Les Hommes" @ Anthology

A scene from Ariane Michel's "Les Hommes." Image courtesy Ariane Michel.

Whether intentionally or not -- the publicity seems to indicate the former -- Ariane Michel's 2006 digital video to 35mm "Les Hommes," screening tonight and tomorrow night at Anthology Film Archives in New York, is a sort of anti-travelogue that follows an expedition of scientists and naturalists to Greenland, revealing their, and by implication contemporary Man's, disassociation with nature even as the film-maker tracks her human subjects' probing of the arctic landscape and its animal and floral inhabitants.

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